Memories held in check
Summary: Memories held in check really centers around how people can manage, suppress, and reinterpret their memories rather if it’s dealing with painful or formative memories. another main point is how people’s memories aren’t freely expressed but can be controlled or even contained.
Key terms: Redolent- strongly reminiscent or suggestive of., Manifest- clear or obvious to the eye or mind., Mementos- an object kept as a reminder or souvenir or a person or event
Discussion Points: Checks
Quotations: “I do not believe he even rode in an airplane until he was forty-six years old, for a one-time only business trip to Chicago, an event I now remember as a source of some excitement.” “Like the grid of streets in the suburban development on Long Island, New York, where I was born, my father’s neatly stacked checks map a whole postwar way of life.”
“Muddiest point(s)”: money
Chapter 5 Comparative historical research- Give Methods A Chance
Summary: Chapter 5 explains how sociologies studying the past by comparing the different places and time periods to understand why certain social patterns exist today.
Key terms: Immigration- the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. Discriminatory- making or showing an unjust or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, sex, age, or disability. Gazettes- a journal or newspaper
Discussion Points: Immigration
Quotations: “For them, looking into the post was powerful because it allowed them to understand historical trajectories and how “something that might seem natural in one given setting can actually vary quite a bit across other cases”.” (ch.5 pg. 41) “A researcher could, for instance, do a similar study by looking at institutions or organizations instead of the written law.” (Ch.5 pg. 48)
“Muddiest Point(s)”: Law